Is the Bonn gig under Lufthaus / Art combo or under the RW label :unsure:

 

I also notice that the dates on the various ticket sale websites still shows MAY as the gig date ..

Robbie Williams and Ed Godrich to auction off artworks. The Black And White Paintings exhibition will feature 14 never-before-seen works by Robbie Williams and Ed Godrich.

 

 

 

Robbie Williams has collaborated with Ed Godrich to create a debut art exhibition – and one of their works will be auctioned off. The Take That singer and the interior designer have spent the last five years creating never-before-seen works deeply rooted in the 1990s rave and music scene. The Black And White Paintings exhibition, featuring 14 works, will be open to the public for the first time from May 13 to 25 at Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries in central London.

 

 

Art and music have punctuated my ups and downs but, more importantly, they both have the power to change how I feel in a moment

Robbie Williams. The duo are also auctioning off one of their pictures, titled Beverly, which it is estimated will sell for up to £20,000 during the Contemporary Curated auction. It is the first time one of their paintings has been up for sale. Williams said: “Art is really whatever you want it to be.

 

“Just like music it has the ability to soothe and provide company when you’re lonely. “Art and music have punctuated my ups and downs but, more importantly, they both have the power to change how I feel in a moment. “To continue the metaphor, we also write songs separately and bring them together. We’re in a band.”. Godrich said: “I create art and can spend hours discussing art with Robbie because we have similar brains, which are in no way combative, just progressive and full of ideas the whole time.

 

“Our paintings take on the rhythm of whatever is playing – and that’s usually electronic music. “Everyone will see something different in each picture, whether that’s the influence of the music playing at the time, or something else.”. Williams and Godrich have also edited the Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated auction, picking out their favourite pieces with the intention of shining a light on artists who have inspired their work and to introduce a new generation to the world of collecting art. Williams said: “I started collecting when I wrote Angels, that gave me the financial capacity to collect. “For you burgeoning collectors, my advice would be to buy what you like – it hasn’t let me down. “It’s important to engage with the art you buy, and you have to have an emotional reaction to the piece.”

 

The championed pieces include Banksy’s spray-painted Rat With Sunglasses and Damien Hirst’s 2-Hydroxypyridine – both estimated to sell for up to £200,000. It also features a work on paper from Jean-Michel Basquiat which Sotheby’s says dates back to 1988 – and is a constellation of his signature markings – which could fetch between £100,000 and £150,000. Basquiat first rose to fame as a New York City graffiti artist, before turning his hand to painting. He died in August 1988, aged just 27, from a suspected drug overdose.

 

– The Contemporary Curated auction will run from April 22 to 28 before the Black And White Paintings exhibition, which will be held at Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries from May 13 to 25.

 

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/mu...s-41569368.html

From pop star to painter! Robbie Williams to host his first art exhibition with one creation set to raise up to £20,000 - after he cashed in £7m with sale of two Banksys and sold £26m LA mansion and £6.75m Wiltshire home

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robbie Williams has turned from pop sensation to painter as he is set to present his first ever art exhibition and will sell one of his own creations for £20,000.

 

The singer, 48, has made a dramatic career change as he will showcase his creative side by presenting black and white paintings he created with interior designer Ed Godrich at Sotheby's New Bond Street galleries next month.

 

Robbie is set to rake in the cash as he will try to get up to £20,000 for his co-creation, after he went on a selling spree and said farewell to two Banksy works from his art collection and reportedly closed deals on his LA mansion and Wiltshire home

He will show off 14 of his stunning art creations at the upcoming exhibition, which will be open to the public, while Robbie and Ed will auction off their painting Beverly, marking the first time they have sold one of their co-creations. Speaking of his artwork, Robbie said: 'Art is really whatever you want it to be. Just like music it has the ability to soothe and provide company when you're lonely. 'Art and music have punctuated my ups and downs, but more importantly they both have the power to change how I feel in a moment.'

 

Robbie and Ed, who founded architecture studios Godrich Interiors together, said of their exhibition: 'We are proud of what we have created and it is time to share what has been coming out of our brains for the last few years. 'An exhibition gives the work a chance to breathe outside of the studio.' As well as selling one of his own pieces, Robbie is also serving as guest curator for Sotheby's contemporary curated sale, where he selected works from his favourite artists to be included - including the likes of Basquiat and Damien Hirst. Robbie and Ed have selected an untitled work by Basquiat, Christo's Over The River, Banksy's spray-painted Rat with Sunglasses, and Damien Hirst's 2-Hydroxpyridine, Henry Hudson's Freedom of Speech and a glazed ceramic by Grayson Perry to be included in the selection to be auctioned. Speaking about their own work, Robbie and Ed said they go into a 'meditative' trance-like state' when they create their art and often listen to Annie Mac's DJ sets as they paint.

 

The contemporary curated sale will take place at the London galleries first from April 22 until April 28, followed by the exhibition from May 13 until May 25.

Robbie's latest venture comes after Sotheby's sold two works by Banksy for a total of £7.7million from his personal art collection. He had put up three pieces - Girl With Balloon, Kissing Coppers and Vandalised Oils (Choppers) - for sale in the first edition of Sotheby's The Now Evening Auction in London on March 2. In the first ever sales from his own art collection, Vandalised Oils went for just less than £4.4million and Girl With Balloon fetched £2.8million.

 

Former Take That singer Robbie has also recently sold smaller artworks to help promote his brand gallery, which also serves as a nightclub. The father-of-four took his passion for art further during the Covid-19 pandemic as he was said to have created around 40 massive works.

 

Robbie, who is married to model Ayda Field, has been on a selling spree in recent months after selling his homes based in both Wiltshire and Los Angeles. Robbie admitted he and his family are searching for somewhere new to put down roots after recently selling almost all of his properties - including his ten-bedroom, twenty-two bathroom LA mansion. The sale came just two months after Robbie found a buyer for his Wiltshire home in a deal worth £6.75million, leading the family to review their options. But the singer is thought to still own homes that total an eye-watering £44million including a lavish villa in Zurich that he purchased with wife Ayda last year to relocate during the Covid pandemic. Back in September, Robbie revealed he was living in Switzerland amid the coronavirus pandemic.

 

It was revealed that the singer has been casting young Australian stars to play Take That in the biopic - as he will star as himself in the production. The biopic will focus on Robbie's life and career as a singer and is being directed and co-written by Australian filmmaker Michael Gracey.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...rks-20-000.html

 

All photos courtesy Daily Mail UK

Grayson Perry is a favourite artist of mine, I went to see his exhibition at The Serpentine Gallery in London a few years ago

 

Will you go to the exhibition in May Laura :)

 

I am really excited for Robbie, I hope it all goes well :)

Always it's a pleasure when plans become reality.

In our life or somebody's else.

And sure I'm also very happy for Robbie because he needed to wait to launch this more longer.

 

Hope for his new success.

 

Laura, please come there and tell us about your emotions from the art! :)

Check it please.

There is a video but w/o sounding (at mobile)

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/contem...-and-ed-godrich

Check it please.

There is a video but w/o sounding (at mobile)

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/contem...-and-ed-godrich

 

 

Great find Alex, thanks for posting, I love the way the video is done :)

 

I love the artwork, I can definitely see the Grayson Perry influence in the pieces

 

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Gosh yes I would like to go if I can -that is exciting. :dance:

 

What a great thing to be able to do.

Gosh yes I would like to go if I can -that is exciting. :dance:

 

What a great thing to be able to do.

 

 

 

 

The Contemporary Curated auction will run from April 22 to 28 before the Black And White Paintings exhibition, which will be held at Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries from May 13 to 25.

 

Our guest curators for Contemporary Curated in April 2022 are none other than pop legend Robbie Williams and his friend and creative collaborator, Ed Godrich, who have been creating original art together for the past five years. The duo will be premiering new work at a dedicated selling exhibition at Sotheby's in May, as well as offering an exclusive new artwork as part of the Contemporary Curated sale.

We recently sat down with the pair to chew the fat about art, pop culture, music, their close collaborative practise and crucially, their selections from Sotheby's Contemporary Curated sale!

 

 

 

 

I assume you would go for the May dates Laura for the Black & White exhibition. I would love to hear all about it . :) It might be a good idea to do go this time around as knowing Robbie & his latest 'passion' he never sticks at any on thing for too long, such an exhibition may not come around again :P

 

Why have you decided to host an exhibition now !

 

Robbie Williams: Our art has been five years in the making, but nobody has seen it publicly before. This is the first time we’ve released any works for sale.

 

Ed Godrich: Doing a show gives the work a chance to breathe outside of the studio. We hope the exhibition will start to draw new relationships between the paintings and that encountering the works together will be a voyage of discovery for us as artists, as well as the viewers. The paintings will find a new life beyond our control in an exhibition context, and we are excited by this.

 

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/contem...-and-ed-godrich

Robbie Williams to exhibit his paintings for first time

 

He’s better known for stepping out on stage and providing some of the most memorable British pop moments in recent memory, but now Robbie Williams is swapping the microphone and the spotlight for an easel as he presents his first ever exhibition. Williams and his creative partner, Ed Godrich, are presenting an exhibition of their black-and-white paintings and curating a sale at Sotheby’s that will feature some of their favourite artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst. The pair’s love of street art, which created their bond and inspired their paintings, is the thread that runs through their exhibition and the sale.

 

Godrich and Williams’s Black and White Paintings exhibition will be on show at Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries from 13-25 May, while their Contemporary Curated sale runs from 22-28 April and includes works by graffiti writer turned art world star Basquiat, and street artist Richard Hambleton. The pair describe the Canadian-born New York-based Hambleton – who uses brushes and black paint in pots to create “immense human shadows” – as “the daddy” of them all and a huge influence on their work. “He was at the forefront of a revolution that has continued to this day. To own a Richard Hambleton, acknowledges your deep understanding of street art,” they said.

 

Williams and Godrich, who co-founded the interior architecture studio Godrich Interiors, said they went into “a meditative trance-like state” when they created their own work, and that it was not uncommon for them to forget painting certain parts of the canvas.

“There are references to so many things buried in the layers of each work, some private, some not. On closer inspection each viewer will perceive the content in a totally different way,” they said.

 

In total, 14 of the duo’s works will be on display at the exhibition, with Williams and Godrich creating the paintings while listening to music (often Annie Mac’s DJ sets) in their Los Angeles studio that they share. Other work in their curated sale includes the spot painting, 2- Hydroxypyridine by Damien Hirst, whom they describe as “a mischievous scamp”, and Grayson Perry’s self-portrait ceramics piece Him and Her. “The intriguing thing about this piece is it covers so many areas of Grayson’s creativity. We all need a ceramic of Grayson and a pink creature in our lives,” they said. “Without Grayson, it all feels a fraction normal.”

 

Williams, an early investor in Banksy, has dabbled in the art market before. In January he put up three works by Banksy from his private collection for a combined estimate of £10m. At the time he said the aim of selling Girl with Balloon, Vandalised Oils (Choppers) and Kissing Coppers was to free up space to be able to buy “new art from new people” and help fund his own work. Canadian-born Richard Hambleton has been a huge influence on Williams’s and Godrich’s work. Photograph: c/o Sotheby’s PR

 

The former Take That singer first told fans about his love for art in 2011. In a blog post on his official website, he said that he was inspired by Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol and had taken up the practice during the group’s down time. Williams reportedly created 40 large works during the Covid-19 lockdowns, and recently sold greetings card-sized artworks to help promote his new gallery, which doubles as a nightclub that he described as “the opposite of Studio 54, which was exclusive and pretentious”. Godrich and Williams said: “We are proud of what we have created and it is time to share what has been coming out of our brains for the last few years. Doing an exhibition gives the work a chance to breathe outside of the studio.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/...-for-first-time

I assume you would go for the May dates Laura for the Black & White exhibition. I would love to hear all about it . :) It might be a good idea to do go this time around as knowing Robbie & his latest 'passion' he never sticks at any on thing for too long, such an exhibition may not come around again :P

 

That's what I thought Tess -his poor old boxing coach never gets a mention anymore does he. ;)

That's what I thought Tess -his poor old boxing coach never gets a mention anymore does he. ;)

 

 

 

No, he moved on to golf after that . I'd say he wakes up each morning without another great idea :lol:

 

Ayda must have great patience :P

Maybe one day we will know that Robbie is Banksy :)

 

 

And yes, you're right about Ayda. She's great in it.

Maybe one day we will know that Robbie is Banksy :)

And yes, you're right about Ayda. She's great in it.

This is what I don't understand -how do you own a Banksy?

If he only paints on walls -who has done the canvases ?

Do the people who own the paintings "know" who Banksy is? :huh:

 

Any ideas?

 

Is there something you’d like people to feel when they view your works !

 

RW: I’d like people to feel positivity. I want them to be intrigued and feel a sense of light-heartedness. This is the opposite of pretentious — I’d like them to wonder why and how.

 

'I’d like people to feel positivity. I want them to be intrigued'

 

EG: Perception is the key and everyone will see something different in each of these pictures. Also to see the influences of the music that has been listened to while they have been painted. But while there is joy in them, there are some darker undercurrents too...

 

 

 

 

This is what I don't understand -how do you own a Banksy?

If he only paints on walls -who has done the canvases ?

Do the people who own the paintings "know" who Banksy is? :huh:

 

Any ideas?

 

 

I am sure people in the 'industry' know who he is but it's the mystique of who he is that is the big draw so I am sure it's in everyone's interest to keep it a secret .

 

Do you remember some years ago when he set up a stall in Central Park New York & displayed a new piece of work every day for a month but only managed to sell 8 pieces for which he sold at $80 . Would you not be kicking yourself for passing him by .

 

I was what happened to Robbie's 'Kissing Coppers', did he sell it privately or was he advised to keep it :unsure:

 

The description at Sotheby's for this painting was

 

 

Banksy

 

b. 1974

 

Kissing Coppers

 

Tagged (on the right hand overlap); signed BANKSY and dated 2005 (on the stretcher)

 

spraypaint and emulsion on canvas

 

121 by 90 cm. 47½ by 35½ in.

 

Executed in 2005, this work is unique.

 

This work is accompanied by a Pest Control Certificate of Authenticity.

This work is accompanied by a Pest Control Certificate of Authenticity.

 

What does this mean? :unsure:

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